Riyadh: Racism performs a significant function in triggering violence and conflicts between teams of society and international locations, Secretary Common of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Dr. Nayef Al-Hajraf underscored on Wednesday.

This was once in a observation through Al-Hajraf at a time coinciding with the Global Day of Peace, which falls on September 21 once a year, below this yr’s theme, “Finishing racism. Construct peace.” GCC is happy with the world group’s participation in celebrating at the present time, he mentioned, declaring that peace constitutes a elementary worth and a well-established imaginative and prescient within the insurance policies and law of member states, along with its consistency with the lessons of true Islamic faith in response to the main of coexistence whilst attaining peace amongst other people, which requires fending off wars, rejecting conflicts and extremism of a wide variety and paperwork.

Racism triggers conflicts between other people, particularly hate speech, contempt for religions and their sanctities in addition to ethnic discrimination.

He acclaimed the ancient function of the GCC international locations to reach peace in conjunction with balance of their regional and world environment through taking many tasks geared toward resolving conflicts, selling mediation approaches, along with making efforts to search out lasting, simply and complete answers to the conflicts the arena is witnessing.

Peace is what countries and other people yearn for, as it’s the most efficient resolution for addressing conflicts and construction the rules of balance in a sustainable means, in addition to attaining financial, social and cultural prosperity for other people, he discussed.